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New SymphonyOne distro plays a different tune

Author: Susan Linton After several years of development, SymphonyOS this month released SymphonyOne 2008.1, the first stable version of its distribution. When SymphonyOS first emerged...

Linux Install Too Complicated? Try a Vista Install

The notebook I dual boot with Ubuntu came with Vista Business, which is dog slow sometimes (I haven't installed SP1 on it yet). I...

Control and keep an eye on many VNC sessions at once

Author: Ben Martin With vncthumbnailviewer you can see many VNC desktops at once and jump in to control any of them with a double click....

Choosing a font manager

Author: Bruce Byfield With libraries of thousands of fonts to handle, designers need a way to quickly locate fonts and organize them into meaningful categories...

Hardy Heron moves into the Black Tower

Author: JT Smith Last time I wrote about the 'Black Tower,' I had just installed Vista and Kubuntu 7.10 in a dual-boot setup. When version...

Three utilities for automatically converting audio for portable music players

Author: Ben Martin While large cheap hard disks allow you to keep your audio collection in a lossless format such as FLAC on your home...

Free Choice: the “Social Business” model and Free Software

Free Software developers fall into two main categories: those that stand by the principles behind free software - patent-free, license-free and unrestricted distribution (for...

Ask Linux.com: Startup commands, cloning, and anti-virus software

Author: Linux.com Staff In this week's peek inside the Linux.com discussion forums, we'll learn how to schedule commands to run every time at system start-up...

Protecting directory trees with gpgdir

Author: Ben Martin gpgdir uses GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) to encrypt and decrypt files or a directory tree. You could accomplish the same objective by...

Is it lift off for Linux?

I had a very interesting conversation with Mr Ubuntu, aka Mark Shuttleworth, at the end of last week and you can read the resulting...